Dunno if it's the slicked-down hair, the tone of voice or the vampire-esque features (actually, likely all three), but I've always found that there's something fundamentally dislikeable about Quentin Willson :suspect: .

Last night ... Hammond is driving the new Alfa on the road beside Lake Como, Clarkson is racing him 'as the crow flies' on a quad bike. Clarkson drives the bike out of the undergrowth and into the lake, presses a button ... and the bike converts to a jetski. As he drives on he looks down the camera, says 'There's only one piece of music for this ... *brief bit of Rod Stewart's 'Sailing'* ... 'no no no, cue the Bond!', and he proceeds to barrel across the lake accompanied by the Bond theme (and a little later on, by '007').

More Goldeneye music featured this week, the score may have been divisive in its day but its certainly proving itself to have legs.

A decent episode all round, this series almost feels like a bit of the throw back to the earliest years of this trio. Chenoybl seems to have become the go-to location for psudo-docu-drama's of late, nevertheless it remains an eerie and unsettling place to do anything in.

I'll put it here, looks like the Boys have been herded out of Argentina (not the first time the British will show their heels to the Argentines) over this number plate business. Personally, looks a load of nothing. The Daily Mail/Mirror lot are getting their hot air out but what tosh. Argentine national team fly a banner declaring "Las Malvinas" are forever Argentina's or some such...well, maybe as someone said if you can't take what you give than so be it.

Quote :

Local councillor Juan Manuel Romano said the digits 269 on the number plate of the Ford Mustang Mustang Richard Hammond was driving were close to the 255 Britons killed during the 1982 war.He added that the numbers 646 on James May's Lotus could be taken as a reference to the 649 Argentinian casualties.

and a veteran:

Quote :

"They said they didn't want to upset anyone but we know the British have lied for the last 200 years. We told them we couldn't guarantee their security if they didn't leave."

We surely can't be the only country to have lied in the past two centuries :)

quotes from the Telegraph, the article has 1287 comments on...utter madness

Why, it's great publicity, isn't it? Couldn't have worked out better if it was scripted. Not sure who's the greater twat in this. If you can burn the national flag in the UK without starting riots, whose problem is that anyway? Hardly the Argies, can't blame them. If Clarkson thinks his joke was so funny he should have stayed, shouldn't he? I mean, where is the perspective here, an old provocator gets some fire back up his bum. So what? Meanwhile guys who surely had less reason to suspect evil get carved up on the Internet. While Clarkson's ratings will skyrocket.

He's a good jobbing journalist, one of the hardest jobs imaginable, and realises that engineering is a damn sight more important than the arts. Any culture that places Tracy Emin above Alec Issigonis is doomed.

I don't think any sane human would. And choosing Tracy Emin as the face of British art is a bit daft (next to a pioneer of his field like Issigonis), although I'm sure Saatchi and his media lickspittles would disagree. Not to mention Issigonis is approaching his centenary.

I agree, but in the Daily Telegraph's poll of the most important British women in arts and entertainment Ms Emin placed first. Now find me a poll in any national newspaper that ranks the most important engineers in Britain.

I agree, but in the Daily Telegraph's poll of the most important British women in arts and entertainment Ms Emin placed first. Now find me a poll in any national newspaper that ranks the most important engineers in Britain.